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Reuters: Florida Ground Zero For Medicare Fraud

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Tags: Florida, Fraud, Medicare, Organized Crime

Reuters is reporting today what has been a well known secret for a long time, there's a lot of fraud in Medicare.  With the economy struggling and jobs being scarce, scrutiny has turned up a few notches as regular people and politicians struggling to reform healthcare are extremely conscious of how much money is being spent or lost.

It may not surprise anyone that Florida would be considered ground zero for fraud but with so many retirees living in Florida full time or part time, there's a lot of money being spent on health and with that, organized crime surely follows.

Take a look at the whole article here.

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